chopping onions is highly theatrical

On Wednesday I did a staged reading, which was great fun. Afterwards there was a talk back which was supposed to be for the playwright's benefit, but some lady in the audience decided to hijack the conversation and make it about 'What is theatre?' instead. It was very frustrating. Hello moderator? Please step in.

It was a little like this, only not funny and not entertaining, and unlike with this, I just wanted to leave and get a drink.



h/t Matt Freeman.

just like that civilization

As per the norm, when I get really inundated and feel overwhelmed by it all, the urge to sell all my possessions and travel the world as a nomadic thrill seeker sets in. Today I would like to go to Machu Picchu.

Anyone game? Come on... look at it! How can you say no?

if amphibians had knee caps to break

I was putting the smallers to bed a few nights ago and as I was tucking Smaller in I found a pair of their play handcuffs on the bedspread. Just shut up already about the hand cuff jokes which are racing through your mind in abundance at this moment. Here is the short conversation.

Me: What are these doing in your bed?

Smaller: My big frog was bad.

I look down to the foot of his bed where his biggest stuffed frog is laying face down and spread eagle. That is all the explanation I got. I still cannot tell this story out loud without laughing so hard I cry.

sullivan on point

For the first time since the 1960s, we have a potential president able to transcend the victim-mongering identity politics so skillfully used by the Clintons. If this promise is eclipsed because the old political system conspires to strangle it at birth, the reaction from the new influx of voters will be severe. The Clintons will all but guarantee they will lose a hefty amount of it in the fall, as they richly deserve to. Some will gravitate to McCain; others will be so disillusioned they will withdraw from politics for another generation. If the Clintons grind up and kill the most promising young leader since Kennedy, and if they do it not on the strength of their arguments, but by the kind of politics we have seen them deploy, the backlash will be deep and severe and long. As it should be.

Thank you again MB. Keep them coming!

blinked

Smaller turned 9 today.

Holy shit!

9!

I have been a parent for 9 years.

That just blows my mind.